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The Eponymous Album [Editorial]

Vinylgewordene Anmaßung, als „Debüt“ gleich mit einer Doppel-LP auf den Markt zu kommen; von „Liberty / United Artists“ beauftragt und selbstbewusst selbstproduziert. Das Ergebnis: ein Klang, wie ihn sich die Band vorstellte und erträumte, aus den Eklektizismen und Ingredienzen, die Rock zum Lebensmittel machten.
        Titel
Hörprobe
Songtext
1) 
 Doctor Bob Dylan
2) 
 Pink Hawthorn
3) 
 Johanna
4) 
 If You Want To
5) 
 Oedipus
6) 
 Fudd McGorges
7) 
 Thingamannalime
8) 
 An Old Army Poem
9) 
 Where Will The Salmon Spawn
10) 
 To My Son
11) 
 Shining Brightly In The Sun
12) 
 It Is You (You Belong To Me)
13) 
 Columbines, Violets And Daisies
14) 
 I Am The Wolf
15) 
 A Well-Respected Man
16) 
 Drunken Mr. Hyde
17) 
 A Soldier´s Songbook
(A special version can also be heard in the Constantin-Film „Wer im Glashaus liebt oder Der Graben“ by Michael Verhoeven)
18) 
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Shining Brightly In The Sun

Lit a cigarette
Got to lazing in my chair
Had a glass of beer
Had another one
On the player my friend John
Singing I’m so tired

Watched a photograph
Well you did wear your hair
A little longer then
Remembered Jean’s café
You’d got back from your holiday
You weren’t very kind

Smoke-eyed child, you seem to be pretentious
Jungle child, you’re mad after adventures
Boredom child, I’m not the Prince of Wales
You’ll carry on
Leaving me knickknacked gimcracked blackjacked

Had my whisky straight
Gee I woke up about eight
The sun was out to shine
Had a glass of juice
Then I had to lay me down
Feelin‘ all that booze

Smoke-eyed child ...

Got nowhere to go
Got to lazing in my chair
Drifted in a dream

Here’s the story of a king
He loved his mistress with all his mighty heart
She was lovely like the moon
And one day she died
The king mourned deep to the edge of the universe
Then he erected a monument
Shining brightly in the sun
It looked enchanting in the glamour of the day
The king removed the coffin there

Produced by
Improved Sound Limited

All songs written by
Axel Linstädt (music) and
Bernd Linstädt (words)
Arranged by Axel Linstädt

Personnel
Johnny Fickert:
vocals, percussion,
flutes and alto-sax

Axel Linstädt:
guitars and keyboards,
occasionally voc.

Uli Ruppert: bass

Rolf Gröschner: drums

Recording engineers:
Jörg Scheuermann, Thomas Kemt, Klaus Maier at Union-Studios
Munich Mixing: Jörg Scheuermann (except A Soldier´s Songbook
T. Klemt and J. Scheuermann)
Cover picture:
Michael Mathias Prechtl
Thanks to the brass, the strings and the choir.
We are deeply indebted to
Gillian Bebber-Luscombe

Digital remastering:
Jörg Scheuermann
Licensed by Improved Sound Limited P 1971, © 2001

 

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